NUR 230 EXAM 4 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT 2025
Mental Status - ANSWER emotional (feeling) and cognitive (knowledge)
functioning in a specific situations that is ongoing and changing.
Mental health - ANSWER balance of work, relationships, and self
mental disorders - ANSWER a person's response is > expected reaction to a
traumatic life event; pattern associated with distress or disability with risk of pain,
disability, death or loss of freedom.
organic disorders - ANSWER caused by brain disease or known specific organic
like a stroke, delirium, dementia and alcohol
psychiatric mental illness - ANSWER organic etiology has not yet been
established like anxiety disorder or schizophrenia
Mental health assessment - ANSWER assess dysfunction and how it affects
self-care in everyday life, assesses emotional and cognitive function, and indirect
observations inferred through one's behavior of health/illness
phobia - ANSWER strong, persistent, irrational fear of an object or situation like
heights
obsession - ANSWER unwanted persistent thoughts like becoming infected by
shaking hands
, hypochondriasis - ANSWER morbid worrying about own health like fear of
having cancer
compulsion - ANSWER unwanted, persistent behavior like hand washing
delusions - ANSWER false, fixed belief that does not change through reasoning
or experience like "they are out to get me" or "I am God".
hallucinations - ANSWER sensory perceptions to which there is no external
stimuli that can be auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, or tactile
illusions - ANSWER misperception of an actual or existing stimulus, by any
sense like folding bed sheets that appear to be animated.
aging adult - ANSWER persons 65 years of age and older
functional ability - ANSWER ability to perform activities and tasks necessary to
live in our society
ADL's - ANSWER necessary self-care tasks like bathing, feeding, washing (hair,
teeth, shaving), toileting, walking, and transferring
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